Chaptalia texana Greene

Leaves petiolate (petioles ¹/8–¹/3 lengths of blades); blades obovate to ovate or elliptic or sublyrate, 3–21 cm, margins lobed to denticulate, abaxial faces thinly gray-tomentose, adaxial faces green-glabrate. Heads nodding in bud and fruit, erect in flowering. Peduncles ebracteate or bracts 1–2, 13–34 cm at flowering, 16–46 cm in fruit, not dilated distally. Florets: outer pistillate, corollas evenly cream colored, turning crimson, laminae 0.2–0.8 mm wide; inner florets bisexual, fertile. Cypselae 11.5–13 mm, beaks filiform, lengths 1–1.6 times bodies, faces sparsely to moderately papillate (bodies and beaks). 2n = 24.

Chaptalia nutans (Linnaeus) Polakowski var. texana (Greene) Burkart

Chaptalia texana, common name silverpuff , is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico.

Chaptalia texana is a perennial plant growing from a large root. Leaves are in a basal rosette close to the ground, with dense woolly hairs on the underside but not on top. There is generally only one flower head, held on an unbranched stalk; head is nodding (hanging) at fruiting time but not at flowering time. Flowers are cream-colored, turning reddish as they get old.

Chaptalia texana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được Greene mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1906.